On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Philip Chang <pchang(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Brion,
Thanks for this summary, and for the work involved in making the switch.
I wanted to mention that Mapquest provides a definition of heavy usage at
the bottom of this page:
*http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open/map*<http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open/map>
Specifically, they mention 4000 tiles per second.
Recently aude contacted Mapquest to give a kind of forewarning. She has
had a longstanding relationship with Mapquest. They recently replied and we
are ok for now (considering our traffic will likely start small and
increase over time). Currently, we are seeing about 20,000 requests per day
on GeoNames from both apps.
20k requests per day -> about 0.2 requests per second. Throw in four tiles
for the initial map, and we're somewhere around 1 tile per second avg.
We'll need a 4-thousandfold increase in usage to get near it I think. :)
Which would be, well, pretty cool. ;)
In addition, our legal department is in the process of
reviewing Mapquest
legalese, but on a first impression, it seems ok. The main concern is about
how the user is warned on the phone regarding location info, and
secondarily the privacy policy. This afternoon there will be a formal
review and I will write an update then.
Have we done the same about Geonames?
-- brion